{"product_id":"9780755657254","title":"Neopatriarchy and Trauma in Arab Women’s Literature","description":"\u003ch1\u003eNeopatriarchy and Trauma in Arab Women’s Literature\u003c\/h1\u003e\u003ch3\u003eLayla AlAmmar\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cb\u003eLiterary Criticism \/ Middle Eastern\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eHow do Arab women writers, both in Arabic and in English, reflect on the unique challenges and conditions facing women in the Arab world?\u003c\/b\u003e Critically engaging Hisham Sharabi's concept of 'neopatriarchy' as well as European and Arab literary and psychoanalytic theory, in this book Layla AlAmmar analyses works by canonical authors such as Hanan Al-Shaykh, Fadia Faqir, and Nawal El-Saadawi as well as less well-known voices such as Lamia Ziadé, Arwa Salih, May Ziadeh, and Yasmin El-Rifae. She argues that these text represent  neopatriarchal traumas specific to Arab women and offer crucial counternarratives to the erasure and suppression enacted upon them by hegemonic structures. Rejecting the tendency towards 'redemption' in postcolonial trauma theory, the book offers a more sober reading of the traumas caused and sustained by conditions of neopatriarchy as well as the oblique modes of resistance evident within these texts. It will be of interest to scholars of Arab, postcolonial, and comparative literature as well as literary trauma theory and gender studies.\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eLayla AlAmmar\u003c\/b\u003e is Assistant Professor of English Literature at the American University of Kuwait. In addition to her academic work she has also published two novels: \u003ci\u003eThe Pact We Made\u003c\/i\u003e (2019) and \u003ci\u003eSilence is a Sense\u003c\/i\u003e (2021). She has written for \u003ci\u003eLitHub\u003c\/i\u003e, the \u003ci\u003eTLS\u003c\/i\u003e,  \u003ci\u003eArablit Quarterly\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003e The New Arab\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eNew Lines Magazine\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eThe Markaz Review\u003c\/i\u003e. She holds a PhD from Lancaster University.\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ctable\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003ePublication Date: \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003e24 December 2026\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003ePublisher: \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eBloomsbury Academic\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eImprint: \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eBloomsbury Academic\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eISBN-13: \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003e9780755657254\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eFormat: \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eHardback\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003ePage Count: \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003e208\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eWeight (oz): \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003e16.0\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003c\/table\u003e","brand":"Bloomsbury Academic","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51669923627148,"sku":"9780755657254","price":103.5,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0710\/9545\/1788\/files\/getimage_d16f1978-18e8-492f-a3c0-b1c30e5d4d67.jpg?v=1785204492","url":"https:\/\/fh90cf-fv.myshopify.com\/products\/9780755657254","provider":"Late Knight Books and Services, LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}